^^Agree. That kind of tactics only work if you have an Armstrong or a Froome who can take it to the next level and drop everyone.
Roglic didn't have that extra gear in the Tour/Vuelta. That's not to say he wasn't slightly better than everyone (barring Pogacar's itt) but it was a ton of work by JV to gain 10 seconds here and there.
It was almost as if JV's train was too strong for Roglic. It's not easy following Martin, Van Aert, Gesink, Dumoulin, Bennette and then Kuss. Any one of those guys is more than capable of winning a GT stage or a big one-day race. Or in Dumoulin's case, a GT...
Of course, they won the Vuelta and if not for a fluky ITT would have also won the Tour...so it would have been harder to criticize.
Roglic didn't have that extra gear in the Tour/Vuelta. That's not to say he wasn't slightly better than everyone (barring Pogacar's itt) but it was a ton of work by JV to gain 10 seconds here and there.
It was almost as if JV's train was too strong for Roglic. It's not easy following Martin, Van Aert, Gesink, Dumoulin, Bennette and then Kuss. Any one of those guys is more than capable of winning a GT stage or a big one-day race. Or in Dumoulin's case, a GT...
Of course, they won the Vuelta and if not for a fluky ITT would have also won the Tour...so it would have been harder to criticize.